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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Haiti was punished for centuries for being able to assert there independence. They were burdened with sanctions, paying back costs they couldn't afford, other European colonial nations wouldn't recognize them or trade with them. Seeing Haiti become successful would have set a bad precedence in other slave colonies that hoped to rebel. The unfair reparations payments (or extortion payments) took Haiti 122 years to pay off (or to 1926). By that time, they were broke, starving, and extremely underdeveloped. They completely missed the industrial revolution because they were too poor to participate, and sanctions meant that other countries wouldn't deal with them. Add to that, they country is also prone to violent natural disasters.
The former colonial powers and countries in the Americas, really need to help Haiti to become a prosperous country. If you do that, there will be no need for violence.
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I'm such an ####### for not understanding or more accurately not caring much about the sheer evil of the colonialism. Reading a PBS history of Haiti this morning was jarring, and your description probably less ugly graphic than it deserves.
Fortunately I expect to be able to rather easily push this back aside and refocus my energies on more pressing issues, like getting gigabit wifi to all corners of my sprawling home.